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Lena landed heavily behind Thor and waved him off to talk to his brother. She wandered down the cliff face, carefully picking her way to solid ground.

Thor growled loudly in frustration, and she whirled to look up at him, worry in her eyes. He was shouting at Loki, which didn't surprise her in the least.

Suddenly two streaks of light in the sky caught her attention. She looked up as not one, but two Iron Men streaked across the sky. The smaller of the two landed in front of her. The other tackled Thor away from Loki.

Tasha flipped her face mask up and grinned at Lena. "I'm not gonna attack you, if that's what you're worried about," she said cheerfully.

Lena relaxed her stance and smiled back. "I was, indeed, slightly worried that you would attempt to neutralize me."

"Whoa, little Miss Thor, Shakespeare in the Park much?"

As one, the two girls and Stark said, "Doth Mother know you weareth her drapes?"

The two men shot the girls odd looks as they grinned and high-fived each other. They were promptly ignored and the two drew back to the cliff face to keep away from the imminent fight.

"Where'd you show up?" Tasha asked cheerfully as she crossed her arms and leaned against the sheer rock face.

"Right as he came out of the Bifrost. You?" she asked.

"He was somewhere over the English Chunnel and I dropped out of the sky. He almost tackled me. That was... entertaining."

They looked up in time to hear Jarvis tell Stark, "Power is at 400%, sir."

"Well." They could hear the smirk on his face. "How 'bout that."

"Thor, LOOK OUT!" Lena shouted suddenly, as Stark powered up his blaster and fired. She made as if to move forward, but Tasha grabbed her arm and yanked her back suddenly.

"Don't! He's fine!" she hissed suddenly.

Lena looked at Thor, fear and worry in her eyes, but she nodded and sighed a bit.

They fell silent, watching the battle with a very dry amusement. They were going on their fifth bag of imaginary popcorn when a red-white-and-blue shield slammed into Thor and rebounded into Iron Man's chestplate.

"Uh oh, brace," Tasha warned, setting herself firmly.

"If you really want to help us, put the hammer down," Rogers said, polite, yet firm.

"Uh, no, he really loves his hammer-" Stark started to say, but was cut off by Thor slamming said hammer into his chest and knocking him out of the clearing.

Thor was evidently still raring for a fight, because he roared, "You want me to put the hammer down?!"

"Oh no-" Lena started to say, but was cut off by the hammer hitting Rogers' shield.

The shockwave pinned them to the cliff for a few seconds and leveled a good size clearing around the men. The two girls straightened when they were sure that it was safe to stand and slowly walked to where the two men were standing.

"Are we done here?" Rogers demanded.

They nodded to each other and looked around for a sixth person. "Is Stephanie around here?" Lena asked, concern filling her voice.

"TIMBERRRR!" a familiar voice shouted, and a tree started slowly falling towards them.

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Stephanie grabbed her shield off her back and used it to control her rate of descent. She could see Rogers below her and angled herself to fall about thirty feet away from him, watching him for cues.

They fell a few hundred feet slowly as Stephanie watched the light show through the clouds. She couldn't help but be worried about Lena and Tasha- not because she thought they would fight, but she though that Thor or Stark may try to take the opposite's doppelgänger out.

She started as she realized that Rogers had pulled the cord on his parachute and scrambled to find her own. With a harsh tug, the parachute billowed behind her and she sighed in relief as her velocity quickly slowed.

She landed before Rogers did in a tree and yanked off the parachute harness. Stephanie took a deep breath, balanced on a branch, before she launched herself to another branch and swung like she was on the monkey bars.

Again she released and flew forwards to land on another branch. She was about fifteen feet from the ground and gauged her injury possibility as negative one.

Unfortunately she failed to compensate for other factors- such as an Asgardian hammer hitting a vibranium shield.

The shock wave blasted her back about ten feet. She tucked and rolled as the blast carried her far back and into a tree trunk, where she slowly stood up and dusted herself off. Her shield was at her feet, and she picked it up before taking off at a sprint for the basis of the explosion.

"Is Stephanie around here?" she heard someone ask, just as she launched herself onto a broken tree and rode it down to the ground.

"TIMBER!" she hollered, before hopping off and rolling as it hit the ground.

"Steph! You're alive!" Lena shouted, sprinting forwards to hug Stephanie. She returned the hug and laughed happily.

"Tasha was just telling me that we're missing Claire and Brenda. We know where Brenda probably is, we just need to get Claire back. How's Nathan taking it?" Lena asked in a hushed tone of voice.

"Not well," Stephanie said slowly. "Lori's having to tiptoe on eggshells around the others. They really don't trust her at all."

"I don't blame them," Lena said. "After what Loki's done, I would find it hard to trust a girl that looks like she could be his daughter."

Stephanie coughed out a laugh as the quinjet landed. "Yeah. Agent Romanoff doesn't quite... care for Nathan. It's quite funny."

"Are you two gonna quite honking like a bunch of geese and get on the quinjet?" Stark shouted.

"Yes," Stephanie said with a longsuffering sigh. "It's gonna be a loooooong plane flight."

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Brenda opened her eyes as her feet landed back on the ground. She looked at herself first in confusion, noticing her green plastic fists were gone. She now had a pretty lavander shirt over her dark green tank top, with dark gray cargo pants. She had black and purple tennis shoes on as well. Her hair was dark and curly as she pulled a bit forward to examine, and tied tightly back into a pony tail.

She looked away from her hair and stared in awe at the exact replica of the SHIELD laboratory from the movie. There were lit-up screens everywhere, with a bunch of sciency stuff she didn't quite understand. She slowly stepped out of her little shadow and cautiously walked over to one screen.

She carefully enlarged a panel and frowned at the confusing graphics in front of her. She raised a finger to close the panel and hopefully go figure out what was going on, only for someone to demand, "What are you doing?!"

Brenda jerked her hand back and took a step back as Dr. Bruce Banner walked into the lab, a cup of coffee clutched in his left hand as his right hovered over an emergency button.

"I'm sorry!" Brenda wailed, throwing her hands up to show that she was unarmed. "I don't know what's going on! I was just trying to figure it out!"

"Who are you?" Banner asked, warily taking his hand off the button and walking forward.

"I'm Brenda. You're Dr. Banner, right?" she said worriedly.

"Yes..."

"Oh no... where are the others?" she asked hastily.

"Others... oh, like Captain America?"

"Yes."

"They went to Germany for secret business-"

"Apprehending Loki. Oh, this is not good, this is not good at all!" Brenda whispered fearfully, wringing her hands in front of her.

"Look, I don't know who you are, or how you know so much, but if you can go back to wherever you came from, I'd highly suggest doing so," Banner said, not unkindly.

"But I can't... I can't go back. Trust me, if I could, I would, but there are too many others here now..." Brenda whispered.

"What do you mean?" Banner asked sharply.

"Look- try not to freak out on me, please," she pleaded.

"I'll try."

"Ok. Where I come from, uh..." Brenda trailed off and steeled herself. "You-and-your-comrades-are-just-comic-book-characters-and-they-made-a-movie-about-what's-going-to-happen."

Banner frowned and looked at her carefully. "Um... come again?"

"... Nevermind. Just know that where I come from, you don't exist."

Quite suddenly the doors slammed open and several armed men entered the room, with guns pointing at Brenda. "Freeze! Put your hands where we can see them!" one shouted at her.

Brenda's eyes widened and she obeyed, quite obviously completely terrified. "Ok! Just don't shoot!" she begged.

"You're coming with us," the same man said, and Brenda shot Banner a fearful look as she slowly walked forward. Evidently, she wasn't fast enough, because one of the man reached out and roughly dragged her to them.

She yelped at his tight grip and Banner said, "Hey, be careful! She's as clueless as we are!"

"Yessir," one of the men said. "But Fury gave us orders to apprehend the person and take her to a holding cell."

Brenda whimpered softly and hugged herself silently, tucking her head forward in fear. "Be nice to her," Banner ordered. "She's obviously very scared right now."

The men nodded and led Brenda away from the lab.